Lightspeed Restaurant (K-Series): A Modern POS Designed for Hospitality

22.8.2025

3 minute read

Meet Lightspeed Restaurant (K-Series), an iPad-based, unified point-of-sale (POS) system made for pubs, cafes, casual and fine dining spaces. This powerful system was built for mobility and efficiency, allowing staff to freely move between tables, directly send orders to the kitchen or bar, split orders according to courses or seating, and make quick edits, all without going back and forth across the floor.

Here are some key features of Lightspeed Restaurant (K-Series):

• Ensure your business always remains online, even during powercuts, via TrueSync server-less technology.
• Assign printers, cash drawers and payment terminals via POS configurations, ensuring flexible device control and custom workflows, such as pay at counter or table service.
• With over 50 detailed reports at your fingertips, you have a full picture of your outlet’s performance available on iPad, mobile or desktop.
• Lightspeed is the ideal system for scaling your operation via its multi-location support and specific integrations/add ons for inventory, accounting, payments and advanced insights.

Pricing Tiers – Match Your Plan To Your Business Scale

With 3 different pricing tiers, Lightspeed meets you where you’re at currently. With the basic, core and pro plans you have access to different features and various options for flexibility.

These are a few features included in each tier:

Basic

The basic tier is a great place to start for most businesses and ideal for businesses looking to start fast but stay simple. With one license and a stationary/tablet ePOS, default integrated payment rates, 24/7 chat support and marketplace integration, the basic tier meets all your needs while also allowing you to purchase add ons on your own time. 

Core

Small to medium sized businesses might find the core tier a better fit. The core tier includes 2 licences which can be used with a stationary/tablet ePOS, Mobile ePOS (Lightspeed Tableside) and/or Kitchen Display System, custom integrated payment rates, along with the basic tier’s reporting features and advanced insights and inventory management, as well as advanced insights and inventory management. This tier also includes the marketplace integration featured with the basic tier, and whilst all add ons are available for purchase, the core tier includes QR code ordering & pay, and gift cards & loyalty. 

Pro

The pro tier offers the best of the best and is mainly aimed towards medium to large businesses. The pro tier includes the same features as the core tier plus an extra license (total of 3), benchmarks and trends for restaurant management, click and collect delivery and third party online ordering integrations as included add ons. Start off big with the pro tier and take your business to the next level. 

Add ons

Regardless of the add ons included in each tiers, extra add ons can be included at any point, here are a few:

Order and Guest management 

• Ordering kiosk
• Reservation and waitlist management 

Restaurant management

• Workforce/Payroll management
• Accounting

Marketing 

• Marketing automation 

Others

• PMS 
• Direct API access

Deep Dive: Lightspeed Order Anywhere — The Game-Changer Add-On

Now introducing the most sought after add-on, Lightspeed’s Order Anywhere, a mobile friendly solution which provides a fully integrated online and contactless ordering experience.

What It Does

• Enables takeaway, delivery, and in-house ordering, allowing customers to order from their own devices, no app downloads required, via a QR code or clicking a link.
• Whether you have your own delivery drivers, or use a third party service, you control the delivery terms, fees and zones, all while avoiding commission fees.  
• Offers contactless in-dining where guests can dine, order, and pay directly at the table via QR code, increasing table turnover and reducing workload for waitstaff.
• Orders feed directly into the Lightspeed ePOS ensuring seamless integration and synchronisation with inventory and sales reporting, minimising possible manual errors.
• Enhanced control over customer experience by setting preparation times, item availability controls, scheduled orders, and allow notes or tipping during customer checkout.
• Benefit from full customisation by easily modifying menus with images, items, modifiers and allergens, upload logos, banners and manage business hours/holidays via the back office.
• Cancellations are no longer an issue, refunds can be refunded directly via POS.

Whether you are interested in mobility, scalability or customisation, Lightspeed Restaurant (K-Series) has you covered. Contact us today to set up a demo and begin your journey to providing the best service possible.